Qur'anic Verse

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Amina Inloes, Amina Inloes is originally from the US and has a PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Exeter on Shi'a hadith. She is the program leader for the MA Islamic Studies program at the... Answer updated 8 meses ago

Kabad in Qur'an 90:4, usually understood to mean "difficulty", is generally taken to refer to the difficulties of physical life that are experienced while living on earth that are the result of the nature of our bodily existence, our need to work and obtain food, and so forth. (Sometimes, it is also understood to refer to difficulties in the afterlife) So it is not referring to Allah experiencing hardship.

Books of tafsir:  A good general book is The Study Quran, edited by S. H. Nasr, which contains a summary of views from many exegetes.

Many people benefit from Tasfir al-Mizan; some of it is available in English online and some other parts can be purchased in print.

If you have an interest in Twelver Shi'i narration-based tafsir, Tafsir al-Ayyashi can be purchased in English, and, God willing, al-Asfa fi Tafsir al-Quran by Fayd Kashani will also be printed in English within this year.

If you have a preference for conventional Sunni tafsir, there are many choices in English. 

Best wishes!

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Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi, Sayyed Mohammad al-Musawi is originally from Iraq and heads up the World Ahlul Bayt Islamic League in London. Other than being involved in various humanitarian projects, he frequently responds to... Answered 9 meses ago

Mixing in minuscule amount is itself a miracle as huge pressure from water from both sides should make full mixing between the two seas, but Allah Created barrier preventing full mixing despite the huge amounts of water from both seas. This a living miracle witnessed and admitted by scientists. Such barrier between millions of tons of waters from two seas can never be created by human beings.

Wassalam.

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Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi, Sayyed Mohammad al-Musawi is originally from Iraq and heads up the World Ahlul Bayt Islamic League in London. Other than being involved in various humanitarian projects, he frequently responds to... Answered 9 meses ago

Quran is very clear that Allah Created pairs in every creature but the concept of pairing which we have is not comprehensive for all creature as our knowledge is limited. Allah Knows the pairing in every creature even what we think single like asexual plants, animals, bacteria and viruses. We should never limit the facts of all creatures to our own limited thinking. Allah states in Quran (Allah creates what you do not know) (Sura An-Najm, verse 8).

The Creator Who Knows everything about all His creatures Knows the pairing of what Has Created. Our thinking is limited and superficial while His Knowledge is comprehensive and unlimited.

Wassalam.

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Allah, The Glorious, Knows who should be included in this verse. We have no right to argue at all. We just submit to the orders of Allah (SWT). The great status of Lady Zainab (AS) is confirmed by authentic statements from the Infallible Imams (AS).

Wassalam.

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The meaning is not what you have written which is a superficial linguistic translation..

'Allah Knows every thing in the pats, present and future. The verse means that : Now, Allah Lightened you burden when it became clear for you that you have weakness.

Wassalam.

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Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi, Sayyed Mohammad al-Musawi is originally from Iraq and heads up the World Ahlul Bayt Islamic League in London. Other than being involved in various humanitarian projects, he frequently responds to... Answer updated 1 año ago

There are four verses in Quran which make Sajda ( prostration) obligatory immediately after you recit or listen to any of these four verses. These four verses are in Sura Al-Alaq, Suran Al-Najm, Sura Sajda and Sura Fussilat.

‘Sajda must be performed immediately with out any delay.

Wassalam.

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Amina Inloes, Amina Inloes is originally from the US and has a PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Exeter on Shi'a hadith. She is the program leader for the MA Islamic Studies program at the... Answered 1 año ago

Two verses which end with the letter ش are:

لِإِيلَافِ قُرَيْشٍ

وَتَكُونُ الْجِبَالُ كَالْعِهْنِ الْمَنْفُوشِ

(106:1 and 101:5)

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Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi, Sayyed Mohammad al-Musawi is originally from Iraq and heads up the World Ahlul Bayt Islamic League in London. Other than being involved in various humanitarian projects, he frequently responds to... Answered 1 año ago

Allah (SWT) ordered us in many verses in Quran to obey the Prophet (SAWA).e.g. 3:32, :132, 4:59, 4:64, 4:80 and many other verses.

'The Prophet Muhammad (SAWA) clearly told the z Muslims to salute his progeny with him. He ordered Muslims to avoid the cut off salutation which does not salute his progeny with him. لا تُصَلّوا عليّ الصلاة البتراء.

Wassalam.

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Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi, Sayyed Mohammad al-Musawi is originally from Iraq and heads up the World Ahlul Bayt Islamic League in London. Other than being involved in various humanitarian projects, he frequently responds to... Answered 1 año ago

The earth is part of the universe.

Wassalam.

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Insan has been understood to refer to all human beings, or only Adam, but it does not change the meaning significantly. It seems most appropriate to understand it as referring to all human beings.

This ayah is understood to be a rhetorical question, along the lines of, "Was there ever any time when man was such an insignificant thing that he was not worthy of being mentioned?"

Here are 3 ways it has been understood:

(a) This could be after the process of creation of the human being had begun but before human beings had populated the earth.

This idea is supported by a narration from Imam al-Sadiq (A) that it refers to 'when he was created, but unworthy of mention'.

It is also narrated from Imam al-Baqir (A) that this verse means that 'the human being was mentioned in Allah's knowledge, but not in His creation'. That is, the human being had been decreed to exist, but did not exist yet on earth.

(b) Some exegetes also say this could be before the human was created at all. (The human only existed in the divine decree and knowledge, so the human was "mentioned" by God but not by anyone else.)

(c) It has also been understood to mean, "Was there ever any time when God was ignorant of the human being?" The answer to that is no, since God had knowledge of what He would create.

All of the meanings can work together too since the point is to emphasize the smallness of the human being compared to the divine, which is a theme that continues in the next ayah.

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The right way is to write it as 
وجنى الجنتين دان
Because it is from Jana yajni not Yajno.

Wassalam.

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Amina Inloes, Amina Inloes is originally from the US and has a PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Exeter on Shi'a hadith. She is the program leader for the MA Islamic Studies program at the... Answer updated 1 año ago

"The sun runs to a resting place/stopping point/stopping time (mustaqirr) of its own. That is the decree of the Mighty, the Knowing." (36:38)

Clasically, the sun's "resting place" has been taken to mean: (a) the sun disappearing after sunset (just as a human being goes to their dwelling place at night before rising in the morning), (b) the final destiny of the sun on the Day of Judgment, or (c) the solstice, in a reference to the sun following its winter and summer orbits until the solstice.

Today, some Muslims interpret it as referring to (d) the astronomical end of the sun/the solar system.

Personally, I tend to see this as a poetic or celebratory expression of the natural world, than a statement intended to inform people of a scientific fact (even if the Qur'an is consistent with facts of reality).

In any case, options (a), (c), and (d) match scientific understanding (obviously, from the perspective of earth, the sun rises and sets).

Option (b) is outside the domain of science since it pertains to the end times and hereafter which no longer operate according to the natural laws presently.

(Some people seem to be of the view that it is unscientific to say that, from the perspective of an earth observer, the sun rises and sets. Perhaps people do not go out and watch sunrises as often as they used to; however, I would challenge them to explain why it is unscientific to discuss sunrise and sunset, when this has such a gigantic impact on things such as the weather and ecology, not to mention basics such as timekeeping. So it is scientifically fine to discuss the sun from the perspective of an earth observer, or from the perspective of right outside the solar system, or from an intergalactic perspective; they are all just viewpoints.)

As for "running", this matches the idea that the sun has a motion in the galaxy/universe and is not fixed in one spot, although it also matches the idea that the sun moves along the sky from the perspective of an earth-based observer. So either perspective is correct with respect to reality.

So the verse is open to several interpretations but they do not conflict with what is known about how the universe and natural world works. Probably the main point is to inspire reflection on the natural order.